New Clean Beauty Finds

In my last post I mentioned that I attended the Indie Beauty Expo here in Los Angeles. Firstly, I'd like to say what a great job they do in helping small indie brands think about scaling up. They brought in Evine as a partner and then since Evine is like a QVC, they also brought in Covalence Laboratories to help these smaller brands recognize that they can scale if/when they want to.

Now onto the discoveries! Well, my client, Lalun Naturals, of course launched her Astral Body collection. I walked away with two products. Skyblue Beard Oil and Golden Sun Drops.

Face regimen

I've been changing up my face cleaning regimen lately. Well, just my night time ritual. I used to clean my face and apply a moisturizer, be it oil, a balm or cream. A while back I had read a blog post by Josh Rosebrook where he talks about not using water to cleanse the skin. Or at least not oil AND water because that doesn't work. It made sense to me, but then again, I continued to use my oil and wash off with water. I know it doesn't quite wash it off because water doesn't do that. But I also wasn't willing to just "wash off" with my hydrosol because frankly, it costs a lot of money.

Peace & Connection

True to my Internet ADHD, I got sidetracked the other day...who knows what I was looking for, usually it's looking up articles that journalists have written and I came across this lovely post from ohh, 2015.

A peek into Waldorf 1st Grade

Mind you, the "peeks" I offer are either taken from something I've learned from parent meetings or directly from what the kid tells me. The following is a song she asked me to transcribe for her. She asked me to do this probably in October of last year when they were learning their vowels.

The phone...

Does anyone else have this ridiculous problem that I seem to have lately...when I pick up my phone, let's say, to use the calculator, somehow I get sidetracked for the next TEN MINUTES or more by my social! WTF?!!

Total time suck.

Joan Chen

Hmm, the hubs and I have been watching Twin Peaks. We didn't catch it the first time around and we are obsessed! Such a good show. I believe this show came on when I was in college or high school?? Goodness, who could get anything done? It's too good. LOVE the acting by Kyle MacLachlan.
Today the hubs asked me to look up what Joan Chen has been up to. Well...who knew??
She has her own blog! AND it's chock full of yummy recipes. Her daughter just got accepted to Harvard? Hot Damn! Good for her!
I'm for sure going to be checking out the Hungry Empress on the regular AND, maybe follow JC on Twitter. You're welcome!

Cruddy pots and pans...Bring it!

Ah, woe is me. The other day, I tried to cook up some garbanzo beans from scratch. Unfortunately, rather than sit around and wait for it I ran out the door! And completely forgot that the beans were on the stove. I tried to call and text the hubs, but I didn't think he was anywhere near his phone. And, he wasn't!